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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's a great explanation, but it's also worth adding that the City of London was the only city mentioned[0] in Magna Carta, which stated: "the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties by land as well as by water&
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> UK very much retains living heritage of the medieval. To give an example, it was only in 2008 when the island of Sark abolished the feudal system (the last place in the western world to do so). https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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Wales is (or was[0]) a principality, historically ruled over by the monarch of England and thus a constituent part of the Kingdom of England[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_in_Wales_Acts_1535_and_15... [1]
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I think the main reason why managers don't devote resources to fixing smaller tech-debt issues is that they can't correctly measure the value of such fixes or reason about them. As an extreme example, the task of "Update the
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> A vote for DeSantis only improves his chance of winning in your case, it doesn't harm Trump But imagine that 3 Bernie supporters all feared that most Republicans would only approve Trump, meaning Trump would beat DeSantis, so &quo
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It would only "even out" if the different understandings of "acceptable" didn't have any correlation with people's political preferences. Given that we know there are personality traits that are strongly indic
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That sounds like you'd just create an incentive for reviewers to block more apps, and refuse to admit they were wrong.
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I agree that Approval Voting seems better in almost every respect to RCV/IRV, and (therefore) much better than FPTP. For that reason I would encourage more states to experiment with Approval Voting so we can gather some more data abou
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's not clearing snow lazily, it's avoiding snow with a lot of effort, but you're probably right that your suggestion could be less total effort than the method in the article, after a certain number of years.
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Who's Steve Jobs?
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One day there is going to be some sort of reckoning, where the question of federating and de-federating gets solved for good. The way it's looking right now, each instance will have to formally join the federation whose rules most clos
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Surely an even lazier way would be to wait for warmer weather?
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Unfortunately we're already seeing new examples of how RCV generates unintuitive outcomes, with Sen. Tom Cotton tweeting[0]: > 60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — w
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Or maybe he's playing 5D chess and this was the plan all along. Actually, there are probably cheaper ways he could have made the Fediverse a viable competitor to Twitter, even if he somehow manages to later sell Twitter for 90% of what
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Providers will be subject to significant moderation obligations, including: algorithmic transparency; prompt removal of illegal posts; systems to inhibit the spread of disinformation, hate, and other harmful content; compulsory co-oper
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I absolutely agree with you, but I wanted to check some actual (non-fluffy) metrics to get a clearer picture. What I found was two interesting charts covering roughly the period of 1960 to 2020 in the US. The first[1] shows "Real hour
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> For example, a CBDC could be programmed so that it can only be spent at government-approved merchants or programmed to expire within a certain amount of time. Now imagine tying that to the EU's social media regulations, which are
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> At the core of the “ID + Selfie” design pattern is the comparison of the face in the selfie to the face on the identification document. This is an interesting alternative to "Amazon One" which is "giving guests the optio
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Spoilt / informal ballots are counted in elections in many jurisdictions, with the number of such votes reported in the final results table. This means that there is at least an upper-bound known for the number of people who scribbled
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Thank you for clarifying what you meant. Your comment is much easier to read than the article you linked to. > if they insincerely/strategically rank begich in 1st instead of palin, then begich wins. i.e. they get their 2nd choice
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It's still mentioned in their docs as the only supported cryptocurrency: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...
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If that's the defining characteristic of being a communist, then the defining characteristic of being a capitalist must be thinking "maybe the relentless pursuit of financial equality above anything else is bad". If both of t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You're saying that "later no harm means ... your vote for your second can't hurt your third", which seems strange, given that (by definition) it means your vote for your third can't hurt your second. If you're
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If the voting process was made as simple as possible (taking into account the best available evidence from user testing, psychology, linguistics, and so on) and someone decided to deliberately disregard the instructions given, and avoided a
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> Sometimes difficult to show harm and standing. Appeals are expensive. That's true, but it seems like an easier case to bring than the cases that have challenged gerrymandering, for example.
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Thanks for digging into that study and providing the extra context. You make a great point that Australian elections, even with the informal votes, have a greater quantity of voter expressions, and also a greater quality of expressions, sin
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> if you want the greens or noone, you get exactly what you want Except you don't get no-one, you get one of the two big parties. (Getting no-one would be like "none of the above" winning, which is a supported outcome in
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I agree that a Condorcet counting process would give better outcomes than the IRV one that is usually proposed, you're right, but I think that both are unintuitive, in the sense that if you handed someone a set of ranked ballots and as
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> They don't have less political power, they are either choosing or neglecting to use the power they were provided. That sounds like victim blaming. If more people "neglect" to use their power, or if the people who "
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
To add to your point, the U.S. government suffered budget deficits every year from 1970 through 1997, then when Bill Clinton was president in 1998, the government finally recorded a surplus. There were also budget surpluses in 1999, 2000 a

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